Favorites of 2011: technocracy edition

It is tempting to see the procedures of the EU as a long-term conspiracy to bore the public into submission.

In the next sentences, Farrell retreats a bit from this statement. The institution churns out regulations that Farrell notes are boring and hard to understand, but this result was not produced as a result of top-level secret planning: "The truth is more mundane. Europe’s leaders fell into technocracy by accident rather than design."